Pietà
       
     
American Woman: Columbia
       
     
American Gangsta: Uncle Sam
       
     
Post Hope
       
     
Class Photo #2: Black Convening
       
     
Class Photo #3: Black Convening
       
     
Study for an Allegory of Liberty II
       
     
Study for an Allegory of Liberty
       
     
Cut: Kara Walker
       
     
Walls: Baldwin
       
     
Janus III: Bayard and Cohn
       
     
Madonna Nera E Bambino (Pieta' II)
       
     
       
     
Pietà
       
     
Pietà

72” x 48”

Oil on canvas

2018

American Woman: Columbia
       
     
American Woman: Columbia

60” x 48”

Oil on canvas

2018

American Gangsta: Uncle Sam
       
     
American Gangsta: Uncle Sam

60” x 48”

Oil on canvas

2018

Post Hope
       
     
Post Hope

84" x 50"

Oil and mixed media on paper

2018

Class Photo #2: Black Convening
       
     
Class Photo #2: Black Convening

72” x 48”

Oil on canvas

2017

Class Photo #3: Black Convening
       
     
Class Photo #3: Black Convening

72” x 48”

Oil on canvas

2017

Study for an Allegory of Liberty II
       
     
Study for an Allegory of Liberty II

48” x 36”

Oil on canvas

2018

Study for an Allegory of Liberty
       
     
Study for an Allegory of Liberty

48” x 32”

Oil on canvas

2017

Cut: Kara Walker
       
     
Cut: Kara Walker

48” x 32”

Oil on canvas

2017

Walls: Baldwin
       
     
Walls: Baldwin

48” x 36”

Oil on canvas

2018

Janus III: Bayard and Cohn
       
     
Janus III: Bayard and Cohn

48” x 36”

Oil on canvas

2018

Madonna Nera E Bambino (Pieta' II)
       
     
Madonna Nera E Bambino (Pieta' II)

Charcoal and gold leaf on paper

53” x 48”

2018

       
     
AMERICAN_GODS_N_A

“AMERICAN GODS: N/A” (2018)
Video
Duration: 3:31

American Gods: N/A (2018) is a mediation which examines the fallibility of Americana by placing blacks at the forefront of its narrative. Between three acts a mother mourns holding her fallen son evoking Michaelangelo’s Pietà, a diva sings a requiem (Lift Every Voice and Sing- The Black National Anthem) for America to an empty church and a group of five artists/activist dressed in all black dawn the masks of their philosophical counterparts. Using the American flag to tie these scenes together, American Gods: N/A addresses issues of gun violence against black males, the separation of church and state or the state as church and historical/contemporary black activism

Written and conceived by
TYLONN J. SAWYER

FILMED BY
JAMIN TOWNSELY

VOCALS BY
LASHAUN PHOENIX MOORE

SCHEHERAZADE WASHINGTON PARRISH
EVAN PARRISH
TAWANA PETTY
JOEL “FLUENT” GREENE
SYDNEY G. JAMES
NANDI COMER